Sijara Eubanks earned her opportunity to give the UFC president a piece of her mind, though.

A month or so ago, the UFC was desperate for a title fight to headline this weekend’s UFC 230 card in Madison Square Garden. With few options available, the promotion announced that the relatively unknown Eubanks would be fighting Valentina Shevchenko for the vacant women’s 125 pounds title.

The announcement did not go over well with fans, and a couple of weeks later the fight was scrapped when the UFC announced Derrick Lewis would be challenging Daniel Cormier for the heavyweight title in the main event this Saturday in New York.

That’s when Eubanks got White on the phone.

“I got Dana on the phone that day and was like ‘What the?’ and Dana doesn’t take too many calls from fighters,” Eubanks said Thursday in New York. “But Ali (Abdelaziz) is a good manager, he put me in touch with Dana and I let him know exactly how I feel. My mom wouldn’t have been happy with all the F-bombs I dropped on Dana, but he laughed about it and said he’d try to do right by me.”

A couple of weeks later, Eubanks said there are no hard feelings.

The situation was a little embarrassing, to be sure, as random fans ripped her credentials apart on Twitter and even UFC play-by-play man Joe Rogan said he didn’t know who Eubanks was when he spoke about the fight booking on his podcast.

With a 4-2-0 record and only one UFC win to her name, it’s fair to question whether Eubanks legitimately deserved a shot at a title.

But as she prepares to take on Roxanne Modafferi on Saturday night, Eubanks said she’d accept the fight against Shevchenko anytime it’s offered, regardless of what people on Twitter are going to say about it.

“Screw y’all, man,” Eubanks said. “Who doesn’t take that kind of fight? Derrick took the fight. When you’re offered a title fight … when you’re a fighter you want to be the best, you want to be the champion, so when you’re offered that shot, you take it.

“Anytime I’m offered that kind of opportunity I’m going to take it. The fans are pissed off but at the end of the day it’s me and my career.”

In general, Eubanks seems to have come out of the whole situation unscathed.

Sure, she’d probably have preferred that the UFC not offer her a title shot and then snatch it away – especially in such a public fashion – but they gave her “a few extra bucks” and a promise that she’ll get a shot at the winner of Shevchenko’s title fight against Joanna Jedrzejczyk next month in Toronto if she beats Modafferi this weekend.

And to White’s credit, he did give her the opportunity to say her piece.

“There were promises, there were a few bucks given and he was like ‘Alright, I love your fire, I love your energy, I love what you said to me just now’, “ Eubanks said. “I told him ‘You passed up on a Rocky moment.’ I was going to surprise the world, I was going to put Valentina on her a— in front of New York City’s crowd and it was going to be a good time.”

Now, Eubanks is moving on, although there’s still one more person she intends on giving a piece of her mind.

If she wins Saturday and Rogan gets in the octagon to interview her, expect Eubanks to have something to say.

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